Lastly, each day I do 10-15 minutes of tactics puzzles to stay somewhat sharp tactically. I also plan on taking other advice of Heisman's and using MCO to go through each of my tournament games after I play them to determine where I varied from book lines and in that way work on improving my openings. This will be less about building a repertoire, more about showing a few fun lines. enter moves into my Chess search engine and make notes along the way, and save as a pgn. I found out that in 3 out of 4 games our kids have some sort of Italian on the board with either colour, so I figured they should have an idea what they are doing. My System & Chess Praxis: His Landmark Classics in One Edition. Once I've made it through perhaps 1,500-2,000 games (will take probably 18 months) then I'll start working diligently on endgames. Were about to have our very first opening night in our club.
His endeavor wants to fill up a gap: whilst it is very easy to find so. Once that's done I'll start working on some more detailed game collections. Leonid Nikolaev, International Master and first instructor of the 'Avangard' chess academy, has authored this booklet with 200 positions, either from the 'Classics' of the past and also from modern games, all and only about strategic motifs. I also have been reading a few books on the King's Indian, including Svetozar Gligoric's book on the Mar del Plata variation and Minev's awesome little booklet of all of Najdorf's games in the KID.īut my top goal right now is to get through 500 Master Games of Chess and Capablanca Move by Move which are the two main books I'm reading. I am going through John Watson's 4th Edition of Play the French. For example, I have Kasparov on Kasparov which I enjoy, and I have the Edition Olms book by Karpov on his best games.Īs for openings, I have tons of extremely detailed opening books. And while the games are not heavily notated the notes are extremely useful for what they are.an overview of what the plan is and why.Īt this point (1650 FIDE) I'd rather play through 500 lightly annotated games than spending the same amount of time to play through 50 heavily annotated games.ĭon't get me wrong, I also play over other games that are much more detailed in their notes. I wouldn't use this book as an opening reference.